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Old 04-23-2021, 02:22 PM   #3778 (permalink)
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That's pretty sweet, honestly. I wonder if it was just a display piece, or if it was a driveable gyro car.
It's very likely that the car would not turn. If un-gimbaled, it would turn, but then it would fall over. Visa-versa.
My dad watched test pilot after test pilot go to their death as a consequence of their aircraft's propeller acting like a gyroscope during turns. The plane would go one direction while the propeller went the other. Too close to the ground to bail out. Hartzell 'shrapnel' for the plane to negotiate.
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